The Hershey Press 1915-02-25

              Stockholders' Meeting Elect Ezra F.
Hershey, W. F. R. Murrie, J. B.
Leithiser and S. C. Steelier. '
Ezra Hershey is Made a
New , Vice President
At the meeting of the stockholders
of the Hershey Trust Company held
February 18, ' 1915, the following
were elected officers and directors for
the '¦ ensuing year: M. S. Hershey,
President; W. H. Lebkicher, Vice
President; Ezra. F. Hershey, Vice
President; George M. Hocker, John A.
Landis, J. B, Leithiser, Israel Moyer,
Wm, F. E. Murrie, U. G. Risser, John
E. Snyder, A. W. Stauffer, S. C.
Stecher.
Of these directors Messrs. Murrie,
Hershey, Leithiser, and Stecher are
new. Mr. Murrie has been president
Of the Hershey Chocolate Company
since it was incorporated. Mr. Ezra
Hershey is;th e treasurer of the com-pany.
Mr. Leithiser is the General
Manager of various Hershey inter-ests.
Mr. Stecher has been treasurer
of the Trust Company since it was
started and previous to that time was
connected .with the Farmers' National
Bank of Hummelstown.
The Hershey Trust Company was
organized in April, 1905, and the
original . incorporators were M. S.
Hershey, W. H. Lebkicher and John
E. Snyder. From the first M. S.
Hershey has been president and W. H.
Lebkicher -vice-president. The Com-pany
began business in June 15, 1905.
Of the original board two have died,
George B. Ulrich of Annville and John
B. Curry of Swatara. Dr. U. G. Ris-ser
was elected to fill the vacancy
caused by Mr. Ulrich 's death. The
other vacancy and three new director-ships
were filled by the election last
Thursday.
There are 57 stockholders in the
company and at the meeting the
judges were Frank B. Snavely, John
H. Imbodej i and H. F. Imboden. Mr.
Snavely presided.
Four New Director s in the
Hershey Trust Company
At 83 Mr. Levi Zimmerman
Has Health and Good Friends
Many Call to Offer . Their Birthday
Congratulations. Sold the First
Land to M. S. Hershey. Was ,
Boatman on the Old Union
Canal. Cheerful Life
On Monday last Mr. Levi Zimmer-man
of Derry Church celebrated his
83rd birthday and all through the day
callers dropped in to offer their con-gratulations.
They found him cheer-ful
and strong, with a bright word
for everyone and with an appetite
that John D. Rockefeller would give
a hundred millions to possess. "I am
all right except my runners," he de-clared
, referring to a slight lameness.
Mr. Zimmerman sold Mr. Hershey
the first land on which the present
town of Hershey is built. He has
seen the community in all its stages
of growth and he was a resident of
Derry thirty years before Hershey be-gan.
"It is wonderful how the town
has grown and I am deeply interested
in everything connected with it. .1
consider M. S. Hershey one of the
most remarkable men of the country
and I am glad to see all his success
because ho deserves it. When I sold
the land to him years ago I said to
him that I hoped he would not put
anything on it that would injure the
neighborhood , but I had no idea of
the splendid things that wore to come,
And now ho is erecting a great taber-nacle
and just as soon as the weather
is a little bettor and this log of mine
fools nil right I am going over to see
it."
Mr. Zimmerman declines to think
of old ago. Recently ho was ro-oloct-od
truHtco for three years of the St.
John 's Lutheran Church , Palmyra , of
which ho was one of the organisers.
Ho has helped to build throe Lutheran
churches and for- u long time was
^ronsuror of the Palmyra church.
Mr. Kimmormnn was born in North
Annvillo Township, Ho lived on u
farm for a whllo and as a young man
was n boatman on the Union Canal ,
making trips to and from Philadel-phia.
He drove the mules along tho
towpath. His wages wore fifty cents
a day, Later ho conducted a store at;
Bindnnglos Church and after that ho
opened the flmt storo at Dorry Church
and was In business there for a num-ber
of years. The storo Is now con-ducted
by his son-in-law, Goo, Yingst.
Mr. Zimmerman koops up with tho
topics of tho day. Ho is an Interest-ing
conversationalist. Ho him tho re-spect
of all this section. In fact his
popularity grows with his years and
this was very happily flhown In tho
cordiality and Interest of the many
men unci woman who called to felicit-ate
him on his anniversary and to ex-tend
to him all porislblo good wishes,
Of tho wonderful changes ho lias soon
in hi'H long life ho' recalls nothing
more aHtonlshln g than tho rlso of the
model town of Horshay ii\ tho Hhort
span of a dosson yours.
Accommodations For More Than a
Hundred Wj th Much Needed, Fa-cilities
for Buyin g Tickets. Lo-'
cation Ideal. Mr. Kreider's i
New Office. New Cars '
This week the waiting room and
general headquarters of the Hershey
Transit Company were opened and in
addition i to the large number of pas-sengers
who used the new facilities
many called to admire^the arrange-ments.
The first floor of the granite build- '
ing formerly occupied by the Hershey
Fire Department has been utilized.
The location is. exceptionally favor-able.
It .is in the center of the town
and is opposite the point where the
cars all stop and where the necessary
exchanges of passengers are made.
The main part of the plan is given
to the large waiting room which has
been equipped with benches and com-pletely
renovated. Back of this is
the room for the telephone exchange
which will be installed later. To the
west and separated by a new wall is
the office of the superintendent and
the ticket office. Here the superin-tendent
has his desk and all the con-veniences
of his equipment. There
are two wicket windows for ticket
selling, one for the waiting room and
the other for the street entrance.
Already the ticket office has proven
a great convenience and there are
large sales of tickets even before sev-en
o'clock in the morning.
Strict rules have been posted in the
waiting room. No loafing, loud
language, smoking or anything that
would make it unpleasant for ladies
or children will be tolerated.
The Transit Company has gone
through the winter with hardly a der
viation in its schedule and it faces a
busy Spring and a still busier Sum-mer.
The Deodate and Elizabethtown
line will be finished by June 1, and
then the system will have over 48
miles of track. There will be a nine-ty
minute schedule to Lancaster.
The equipment is being increased
all the time. Two new pay-as-you-enter
Brill cars are due the middle of
March and two more the first of April.
These are strictly modern and they
cost considerably more than the usual
trolley car—which explains why rid-ing
on the Hershey lines is so much
more comfortable than on some oth-ers.
The present cars have been
equipped with illuminating si^ns, a
decided, convenience.
A new car barn is being built in
Lebanon. A new car barn will be
built in Hershey but the location has
not been selected. In the meanwhile
an addition has been made to the
present barn. While all the Hershey
lines are doing finely the increase on
the Lebanon route is particularly no-ticeable.
There was much travel last
Sunday.
New Waiting Room Open For
Transit Company's Patrons
Total Attendance of 175,000 Expected
at the Meeting in Hershey Next
June. Sessions Will Begin
June 2 and Continue to June
10. Big Day on Sunday
On Tuesday the Committee of tho
Church of the Brethren came to Her-shey
,and hold a long meeting in the as-sembly
rooms of tho Hershey Inn.
Important progress was made upon
tho plans and details and everything
points to the greatest eon/orenco in
tho history of tho church. The com-mittee
were pleased by tho assurance
of tho Hershey representatives that
tho big auditorium would bo ready in
time and that it would have facilities
especially for tho convenience of tho
conference,
The committee of arrangements
are: 'Elders 1. W. Taylor, chairman ;
L, II, Hort/.lor, secretary ; John Horr ,
treasurer; Josso Zoigler, J. II. Longo-nockor,
John C. Zug and G. N. Falkon-stoin,
It is estimated that tho attendance
will bo from 15,000 to 20,000 dully and
on Sunday (50,000. Tho convention
will continue from Juno 2 to Juno 10,
Tho committee expects that the total
attendance will bo at least 170,000.
Every church in tho denomination
is entitled to send delegates and (100
delegates are expected. Practically
nil tho States will bo represented and
there will bo delegates from foreign
countries, Tho local arrangements
include sleeping accommodations for
10,000 and the feeding of 17l> ,000 and
they ni*o well under way,
Committee of the Brethr en
Arran ging Great Conference
All the People of Hershey Will Join
In A Fin ish Fight Against the Fly
WITH EVERYBODY HELPING -THIS CAN BE MADE A„FLY
LESS TOWN AND IT IS THE INTENTION TO BEGIN THE
CRUSADE AT ONCE AND KEEP IT UP UNTIL THE
BATTLE IS WON. HEAR DR. DAWSON . MARCH 6.
¦ On Saturday evening of . next week
—March ' 6——Dr. Dawson will give
an illustrated lecture at the Hershey
Central Theater. It will be extreme-ly
interesting in itself, but it will have
a meaning for Hershey that is im-portant
to every man, woman and
child in the town. It will show how
the city of Cleveland banished the
house fly and added - wonderfully to
the health and comfort of the whole
population.
' With the fly driven out there was
less sickness; there were fewer
deaths; there was a cleaner and! hap-pier
city.
Hershey has most of the . good
things better than other places, but it
has too many flies:
The purpose is to inaugurate a
campaign that will enlist every man,
woman and child in the neighborhood.
Be sure that you hear Dr. Dawson.
In the meanwhile kill every fly in
sight. ,
The Company's Circular
The Hershey Chocolate Company is
earnestly behind this new campaign
and it has distributed the following
circular:
FLIES are the most dangerous ene-my
of man.
FLIES carry typhoid fever, infan-tile
paralysis, cholera infantum, spin-al
meningitis and many other filth
diseases.. In this way they . are re-sponsible
for many thousands of
deaths every year.
FLIES feed on any fermenting or
rotting matter—garbage, contents of
spittoons and all sorts of unnamable
filth. At meal time they swarm to
our tables and- carry filth and disease
germs to our food.
ONE FLY may carry over 6 million
germs on its body.
FLIES breed in horse manure or in
any fermenting vegetable matter.
HERSHEY may be a "fiyless town"
if everybody helps to do the follow-ing:
(a) Kill all the flies that come out
early in the spring. These are the
ones that begin laying eggs early and
raise the first broods.
(b) Keep fly traps set on porches
and wherever flies are seen.
(c) Keep all manure cleaned up
and hauled away at least once a week.
Keep garbage cans covered. All gar-bage
should be put in the cans
promptly. Do not allow any refuse
to lie around the house or yard. Keep
all food covered and out of reach of
flies. „„—¦. . ., .- — j.,..
BAIT FOR FLY TRAPS. Flies
are thirsty and bait for traps must be
wet or the flies will not go into the
traps. Use bread and milk or brown
sugar and vinegar. Scald traps once
a day and renew bait.
HEAR DR. DAWSON. Dr. Daw-son
of Cleveland will give an illus-trated
lecture on how to get rid of
the flies in Hershey, Save the Date.
MARCH 6th in the Central Theater.
In the campaign in Cleveland which
was under the direction of Dr. Daw-son
the boys and girls did magnificent
work. This is from a letter
sent to each of them by Dr. Dawson :
Enlisting the Children
Dear Boys" and Girls:
Do you know much of the sickness
and death- in our city is unnecessary
and that we can do away with it if we
all work together to get rid of filth
and flies?
Will you get rid of every fly as
fast as it comes from its place of hid-ing,
remembering that to kill one fly
in the spring before it lays its eggs
is equal to killing thousands in Au-gust
and September ?
Will you tell everybody to keep
flies away from sick people because
the flies carry germs from the sick
to the well ?
Will you clean up your yard and put
all dirt and , rubbish in baskets, cans
or boxes ?
Will you see that the garbage is
covered so that the flies will not come
near your yard to feed or breed?
If you. know where there is filth
and dirt will you write a card to the
city hall or will you tell the Junior
Sanitary Police of your school to see
that it is cleaned away?
Will you remember that flies carry
filth and disease germs on their feet
to food and that clean food is just as
cheap and less dangerous than food
that is fly-specked ? Will you tell
your mother where you see flies
crawling over food so that she will
not buy it?
The Work to Do Now
It is the mother flies that survive
the Svinter. In spring they begin
feeding' actively and soon commence
laying eggs. For this purpose they
go out of the buildings and seek per-ferably
horse manure; if they cannot
find this they may lay their eggs in
any wet rotting animal or vegetable
matter. They find this matter by
smell, even though people may not
notice any odor. A fly lays 120 to
150 eggs at a laying and a fly may
lay six times. Allowing six batches
of eggs of 150 each, supposing all to
live and find filth to breed in, 191,010,-
000,000,000,000,000 flies might be bred
from a pair of flies starting in the
spring. It is of course an inconceiva-ble
number, but it shows powerfully
the necessity of starting at once and
getting rid of all the spring flies pos-sible.
Stable flies are different from house
flies but they are disease carriers and
the spring is the time to begin the
killing. Look to all stables and kill
all the flies in sight.
Dr. Dawson will be here on Satur-day
night, March 6, and the Hershey
Central Theater will be crowded. In
the meanwhile kill all the flies you
can.
Hear Dr. Dawson, March 6.
Here Are the Good Things
They Will be For Sale at the Satur-day
Market This Week
Not only is tho Mothers' Club
doing splendid wovk f or the communi-ty
but it is giving tho people an op-portunity
to got tho finest of homo-made
delicacies. These will bo for
sale at tho Saturday market In tho
basement of tho Horshey Storo. 't he
prices will bo moderate and tho lr.onoy
is to ho used for tho club' s work.
Miss Margaret Langworthy, tho very
efficient secretary, is In charge, Tho
good things Include homo-canned to-matoes,
cherries, peacnos, picklos,
chow chow, candy, popper nuts , buns ,
lomon moranguo, milk sponge, nut
bread , oatmeal cooklos , noodles , etc,
Don 't miss this chance to supply your-self
with some of those delicious M'ti-oIoh.
George Eppley Confirme d
and Assistant Selected
Roy E. Yeiser of Li tit z Stood at Top
of the .Examination List and Got
the Appointment. Will Move
His Family to Hershey.
Mr. Peiffer Popular
George Eppley's appointment as
postmaster of Hershey was duly con-firmed
by the United States Senate
and he will take over the office just as
soon as the usual formalities of the
Department are completed.
The matter of the first assistant
postmaster has been settled by the se-lection
of Roy E. Yeiser. of lititz
who stood first on the list as made out
by the Civil Service Board from the
examination held in Hershey on the
26th of last September. Mr. Yeiser
will bring his wife and child to Her-shey
and will reside here. He has
been an accountant and is highly-spoken
of. He won the appointment
purely on the merit of his examina-tion.
The place pays ($800 a year,
with further pay according to length
of service. ¦
There is general regret that the
temporary appointment of Charles F.
Peiffer could not be made permanent.
He was appointed Aiigust i last and
the period of his service expires in a
few days ; this under the law could
not be prolonged. Mr. Peiffer has
made many friends in Hershey and he
will take with him the best wishes of
everyone. ,
Every month of the current fiscal
year has shown ,an increa.se in the
business of the Hershey post-office.
Since last summer when Postmastar
Newton took hold the increase has
been fully fifteen per cent a rionth
and this during the war period is a
very exceptional ; many post-offices
show a decrease. Hershey, however,
continues to go ahead and the in-crease
for the present month is un-usually
large. . The only falling off is
in the number of foreign money or-ders;
not so many are being issued as
.before the war began. This means
that the foreigners in and around
Hershey are keeping their money and
many of them are depositing it in
the Hershey Trust Company.
THey Are Shetlands and They Will be
Used For the Park Circus and the
Riding School and With Them
Will be Basket Carts and
Everything to Delight
Here is fine news for all the chil-dren.
Hershey is to have a troop of
Shetland ponies. Frantz Zinner is
trying to keep it a secret, but already
he has them in the Zoo stables,
They are beauties. Everyone is
registered and thus all are aristocrats
of the pony world. Of course you
know that the Shetland Islands from
which the ponies came originally are
in the present war zone and the ani-mals
of the islands are different from
those in other parts of the world.
There the ponies are used for work
in the collories; the cattle are -small
and tho pigs are bits of th'ings.
Since being brought t:o America the
Shetland pony has been developed in-to
a superior animal while at tho
same time retaining tho characteris-tics
of his birthp lace. There are two
excellent breeding farms within a few
hours of Horshey—one at Carlisle and
one near Petersburg. , Throe ponies
received this week came from Car-lisle
and throe from Petersburg,
There are five females and one male,
and in a year or so it may lie that
Horshey will bo a center for (ino Shet-land
stock ,
When tho Park season opens tho
children will have an opportunity to
ride those beautiful croaturoH and to
drive them to basket ciirts. They
will bo at tho Park the cominu; Spring
and Summer, Frantz Zinnor is de-lighted
with tho now ponies.
Tho season's interest in the Zoo has
begun, Last Sunday it was crowded
most of tho day with visitors from
Lebanon , Harrisburg and other places,
Beautiful Little Ponies
For the Children of Hershey
Hummelstown s Postmaster
Grovor C. minor , of Hummelstown
was nominated by President Wilson ,
lust Wednesday for tho postmaster-ulilp
at Uummolstown , with n salary
of !f>l(J00 a year. Mr. llumir is at
present assistant foreman In tho com-posing
room of tho Star-Indopondont ,
where ho has boon employed wince
learning the printer 's, trade thirteen
years ago,
Other Places Will be Highspire, Mid-dletowrt,
Steelton, New Cumber-land
and Harrisburg. League ,.
Had a Successful Season
Good for Hershey
In all likelihood the Hershey base-ball
team will be taken into the Cen-tral
Pennsylvania League for the com-ing
season, 1915. Application was
made last week and all the reports
received thus far on whether or hot
Hershey will be -given a berth in the
league have been very favorable.
Should Hershey get into the league it
will send baseball stock a soaring at
this place and will give the town the
best baseball in its history. Hershey
made an effort to get into the league
last season and was turned down.
During the past few years Hershey
has had a team that could compete
with any of the teams represented in
the league last season and if taken .in
this year would no doubt be among
the leaders at the close of the season.
Interest was lost in baseball here dur-ing
the last few years because Her-shey
was unable to schedule worthy
opponents and the competition was
not keen enough to attract the aver-age'
fan.
James Millard, J. M. Brandau,, Dr.
H. G. Mumma, L. B. Shoap and F. B.
Saylor represented Hershey at a
meeting of the League last Thursday
evening at Steelton and on behalf of
the Hershey club Dr. Mumma made
an earnest plea for the admission
of. the Hershey team ' into the league.
Messrs. Millard and Brandau also
spoke. Hershey's proposition was
well received and it was stated that
Hershey will , be, considered over any
of the other towns as Lebanon, Me-chanicsburg
and Harrisburg.
Methods of transportation and ex-penses
are intimated to be the only
matters holding up the approval of
Hershey while these matters are fav-orable
as regards Harrisburg. . It is
therefore reasonable to assume that
the league will be increased to six
teams and Hershey and Harrisburg
will be the fortunate cities to be re-presented.
President Stees instructed the
league representatives from each of
the four towns now holding franchises
to appoint one person to act on a com-mittee
to consider the applications and
investigate traveling facilities and ex-penses.
All 'of the four towns—Highspire,
Steelton, Middletown and New Cum-berland—
entered in last year's cir-cuit
were represented at this meeting
and all gave assurances of a success-ful
season in their different towns.
It was decided to boost the guarantee
limit to be paid visiting teams to
twenty dollars, or a division of all
gate receipts oii the same scale as
last yeaiy the limit last year being
placed at just one-half that amount.
New Cumberland voted' against this
increase, the three other clubs favor-ing
it.
At this meeting Frank A. Stees of
Steelton was re-elected president of
the league and John M. Donovan of
Steelton was re-elected secretary and
treasurer. Both these men did ex-cellent
work last season.
Hershey May Enter the
Central Pennsylvania League
A Remarkable Lad y
Although Totally Blind She Has Many
Accomplishments
Miss Roginn Strino who resides
with her brother William Strino on
Spring; Crtek Avenue is totally blind
but she is one of tho happiest, most
cheerful and most efficient ladies in
this section. She is a remarkable
worker, Although G3 years old she
is active and alert. This week she
completed a platted rag rug which
contains !18 and % yards of material.
It Is a beautiful piece of work. Sho
does many things well. Sho can pool
potatoes, bake broad and mend
clothes, Sho plays tho piano and oth-er
musical instruments delightfully.
Sho threads her own noodles when
sowing. She roads many hooks, us-ing
tho raised letters.
Blindness came upon nor from ill-ness
-when she was 17 years old and
it wan duo to devotion to hor mother,
but nlio had a stout heart and a
bravo soul and determined to got all
that vyn s possible out of life. So sho
has found enjoyment in hor work and
hor friendl y interest in everything
has made hor a great favorite with
with nil who know hor, Hor cheer-fulnuHH
is an Inspiration and it has
helped to glvo hor excellent health.
Etter -Tibbens
lltuyoy IS tier of Union Deposit and
Miss Holla * 'ribbons of Hocltvillo wore
quietl y married on Tuosduy morning
at tho United Brethren parsonage by
Rov. N. L. Llnobaugh, They wore
unattended. Mr. Ettor is employed
at this place. Thoy will reside in
Sand Beach after April 1st,
Tho residence of W. fl. Long in
Union Deposit was badly damaged
on Sunday afternoon whon fire from
some unknown origin destroyed two
rooms on the second floor. A bucket
brlgndo was formed and tho lire wi»h
soon extinguished. Tho damage was
about $200.
Small Fire
The marble building of tho Horshoy
Trust Company ,'is to have beautiful
surroundings in keeping with its own
attractiveness, This week Hurry
Huvorstiok brought «">() splendid cedars
from Conowugo and ho will secure
250 other evergreens. All those will
bo placed In the lawn around the
hank building. Tho cedars urn from
II) to 20 foot high.
In a Bower of Beauty
One of tho really delightful eve-nings
of tho season will be the eon-cert
of tho Lebanon Valley Cpllogo
Gleo Club this coming Saturday night,
Tho club is one of tho best in tho
country. Wherever it has played it
has boon applauded and praised, It
presents a program that is full of
harmony and interest , every number
good and not a dull moment. There
are glees, solos, violin selections and
readings.
Tho admission Saturday night will
be 10 and 20 cents, It is expected
that there will bo a largo audience ,
Fine Concert to be Given Saturday
Evening
Glee Club in Hershe y
"Character Studios for Personal
Profit" will l|o continued at tho Lont-on
Week Night ; Service to-night in
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church. The
subject In particular will bo "Galu-plias."
At tho service next Sunday
morning tho sormon will trout; of
"Christ's Prayer for His Own."
At Holy Trinity
Mrs, George Yings t and Mrs. Susan
Hanshue narrowly escaped being
seriously injured on Saturday after-noon
about 4 o'clock whon tho horse
which thoy wore driving took fright
at the dinkey engine working on tho
now trolley lino at a point near Vlan.
Mrs. Hanshue escaped by lumping
from tho wagon but Mrs, Yingst was
thrown Into tho top of tho -\\agon
whon tho horso madoi p. sharp''turn.
Mrs. Yingst was badly bruised about
tho body but Mrs, Hanshue escaped
without Injury. The horse tore away
from the wagon and never stopped
until ho reached tho stable of Mr,
YlugHt In Dorry Church, Tho ladles
wore brought as fur as tho Industrial
School on tho engine from which place
thoy walked homo.
An Exciting Accident
In connection with tho week night
service In Holy Trinity Church last
Thursday, Mr, George Ooponhavor
gave an Interesting account of tho
Good Shepherd s Homo at Allontown ,
recently visited by him.
Mr. Copenh aver 's Address